Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

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Naomi Weiss delivers a public lecture on Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel, Home Fire

Naomi Weiss (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University), talks on Kamila Shamsie’s retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire (published by Bloomsbury, 2017; winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018). Streamed live on the APGRD YouTube channel on Monday 15 February 2021, and followed by a live Q&A with the online audience, with questions submitted via YouTube chat and email.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

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Naomi Weiss

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classics

classical reception

comparative literature

kamila shamsie

Sophocles

Antigone

ancient greek tragedy

theatre studies

drama

Department: Faculty of Classics

Date Added: 15/12/2021

Duration: 01:01:05

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The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America

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Rosa Andújar delivers a talk on the work of the award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro

Streamed live on the APGRD YouTube channel on Monday 18 January 2021, Dr Rosa Andújar (KCL) talked about the award-winning Chicanx adaptations of Greek tragedy by writer, theatre director, social activist, and MacArthur Fellow, Luis Alfaro. Alfaro's Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey and Mojada transplant themes of Electra, Oedipus the King, and Medea into 21st-century Los Angeles, giving voice to the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx communities. The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada, edited by Rosa Andújar, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. The lecture was followed by a live Q&A with the online audience, with questions submitted via YouTube chat and email.

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Department: Faculty of Classics

Date Added: 15/12/2021

Duration: 00:55:35

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A People’s History of Classics

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Edith Hall and Henry Stead in conversation about their book, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Edith Hall (KCL) and Henry Stead (St Andrews) were live-streamed on the APGRD YouTube channel at 2pm on Monday 23 November 2020 to present and discuss their new book, A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (Routledge, 2020). The conversation was followed by a live Q&A with the online audience, with questions submitted via YouTube chat and email.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

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ancient greek theatre

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Department: Faculty of Classics

Date Added: 15/12/2021

Duration: 00:57:45

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Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO

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Changing Character of War

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Hear from Professor Janne Matlary, co-editor of this recent publication, as well as two contributing authors: Steiner Torset and Anders Sookermany

Dr Rob Johnson will chair a panel discussion with contributors to Military Strategy in the 21St Century

What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards, does military strategy have any relevance?

This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point. Which strategies are needed? Is ways—ends—means thinking possible as a strategic template today? The contributors probe the relative importance, utility and options of military strategy across NATO as it confronts a variety of challenges old and new, as hybrid threats, new nuclear risks and conventional force combine in complex ways. They also examine what military strategy and military integration really mean, when NATO’s multilateral framework is being weakened by degrees of self-interest. They analyse the USA’s political and military role in Europe, and assess military strategic responses to Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Middle East. Moreover, they study the role of member states’ military strategy set against Article 5 and non-Article 5 risks and threats, and explore how European states devise and implement military strategic options.

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Changing Character of War

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Janne Haaland Matlary

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Department: Pembroke College

Date Added: 14/12/2021

Duration: 00:37:37

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Meet the Manuscripts: Correcting Christmas Carols

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

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In the 3rd talk in our Meet the Manuscripts series, you will learn how singers lived with change in their favourite songs, and hear carols of the Middle Ages both familiar and new.

Have you ever come close to fisticuffs with a friend over the tune to which ‘O little town of Bethlehem’ should be sung? You’re experiencing a very old problem. The Bodleian’s Selden Carol Book is a famous collection of Christmas songs that only barely made it into modern consciousness: many of them survive in no other books, but have been modified in the manuscript itself, meaning that we have more than one version to choose between. How do we deal with phenomena of scribal correction, error, and variation in late medieval carols? What can this tell us about performance and the oral culture of the late medieval period?
Speakers: Micah Mackay, doctoral student in the Publication Before Print Doctoral Centre and Andrew Dunning, R. W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts

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Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 14/12/2021

Duration: 01:00:13

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Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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This discussion brings together the editors of a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on Capitalism.

Rising levels of inequality, social exclusion, environmental degradation and political divisiveness are a of source growing disillusionment with our capitalist system.
The OxREP issue includes articles by leading economists from around the world on the problems with the existing system and the changes that need to be made to address them.
At the heart of the arguments presented is the notion of cohesive communities and societies, and their role alongside globalisation, privatisation and financialisation in restoring trust in capitalism.

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Department: Oxford Martin School

Date Added: 09/12/2021

Duration: 01:28:41

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Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox

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Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

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Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes.

Drawing on her background in physical geography, Alice’s work and practice is deeply rooted in the environment, natural materials and sustainability, often combining textiles, found objects, and natural fibres and pigments from her allotment. In this session she shares examples of her work and explains how book structures are something she often comes back to in her process led making.

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Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

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Department: Bodleian Library

Date Added: 09/12/2021

Duration: 00:57:39

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Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War

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Asian Studies Centre

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The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography

The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography. In the mid-2000s, increasingly accessible compact digital cameras and mobile phones in the hands of an eager public rapidly supplanted film photography. Unrestrained by finite exposures or time-consuming and costly processing, hundreds of images could be immediately generated, viewed, modified, stored or transmitted globally by a single device. As a result, a surplus of such digital images documenting the horrors of Sri Lanka’s ‘No Fire Zones’ were captured by both victims and perpetrators of wartime atrocities. In the postwar, these photographs and footage persist in active online and offline circulations underpinning competing political claims and demands for justice and accountability. Centred on the public commemoration of the 2009 Mullivaikkal massacre, I examine the unruly afterlives of atrocity photographs within contexts of Tamil civilian resistance and remembrance in northern Sri Lanka. I consider how these postwar mobilizations serve as visual enumeration of state violence and reinforce collective imaginings of alternative political futures as both necessity and possibility.

Vindhya Buthpitiya is an anthropologist and curator working at the intersection of conflict and visual culture. Her current research focused on war, photography, and civilian resistance in northern Sri Lanka considers the local and global aftermaths of civil conflict through the making and moving of images. Vindhya is an Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and a member of PhotoDemos: The Camera and the Political Imagination at UCL Anthropology.

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 09/12/2021

Duration: 00:45:59

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What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East?

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Middle East Centre

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This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre

Like many parts of the world, the environment in the Middle East is in crisis. Climate change, biodiversity loss and unsustainable material extraction will have the same detrimental consequences for life as elsewhere on the planet. In recent years, however, the state of the environment in the Middle East has been framed in a sensationalistic manner; with little evidence, it is blamed for conflict and migration and is predicted to lead to societal collapse. Using a lens of political ecology, this talk will illustrate how these assumptions are problematic; they are rooted in a Western perception of the environment in the Middle East that is determined by cultural and political imaginaries. Political ecology also tells us that the current policies enacted by regional states to address sustainability will probably fail, on the basis that they are technopolitical. But it also tells us that there is a potential for an alternative that offers a more optimistic future, albeit one that requires radical change and a departure from the current system.

Christian Henderson is assistant professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. His research focusses on the agrarian political economy and the political ecology of the Middle East and North Africa. His work has previously been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Environment and Planning A, Review of African Political Economy and the Journal of Arabian Studies.

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Middle East Centre

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Christian Henderson

Walter Armbrust

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modern middle eastern studies

Environment

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Department: Middle East Centre

Date Added: 08/12/2021

Duration: 00:54:24

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Episode 8: Liberatory orientations in African(a) and South Asian philosophies

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African(a) and South Asian Philosophies

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In this episode, Aamir Kaderbhai (Mst Study of Religions), Heeyoung Tae (BA Philosophy, Politics, & Economics), and alicehank winham (MPhil Buddhist Studies) converse with Dr. Anatanand Rambachan (Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College),

Dr Brett Parris (DPhil candidate in religious ethics at Oxford) and Dr Lee McBride III (Professor of Philosophy, The College of Wooster) about the nuances of liberatory philosophies in the African(a) and South Asian philosophical traditions.

In this series finale episode we intersect our journal’s subthemes though by no means end their exploration. Our guests link reasoning and logic to social thought and practice by reflecting on the African(a) and South Asian philosophical traditions as well as Euro-American educational practices. Their comparisons focus on liberatory philosophies that work on alleviating oppression through the transformative power of philosophy. Yet there are differences between philosophies of liberation despite this similar goal. We explore similar themes and nuanced differences between some South Asian and African(a) liberatory philosophies including new and old takes on Advaita Vedanta philosophy and insurrectionist ethics. We examine the dangers of essentialization and how we can use language in forms of coalition-based action from a philosophical lens. This ties philosophical analysis to our daily lives, socio-political institutions, and practiced norms. We become able not only to orient ourselves towards liberation but also to nuance our paths of questioning and education in that direction.

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Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 08/12/2021

Duration: 01:49:26

Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

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Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War

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